Justin Ling
@justinling.bsky.social
Freelance journalist. In WIRED, Foreign Policy, etc. Writing a book about crowd control. The future is now, unfortunately. justinling@pm.me
bugeyedandshameless.com
just when you thought you couldn't hate The Morning Show any more
Jay Carson spent years as a Democratic insider, working for the Clintons and others. Disillusioned, he left politics for Hollywood, where he went on to create “The Morning Show.” Now he’s helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. run for president as an independent.
The Quiet Voice in R.F.K. Jr.’s Ear: A Former Aide to the Clintons
Jay Carson spent years as a Democratic insider. Disillusioned, he left politics for Hollywood and became friends with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — whose campaign he is now helping to steer.
www.nytimes.comNo matter how many flashy interactives the New York Times publishes, the lab leak theory of COVID-19 continues to be less likely than natural origin. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
What we’re still getting wrong about the origins of COVID-19
A buzzy new column argues that the virus behind COVID-19 most likely came from a lab. Don't believe it. (At least not yet.)
www.thestar.comWith the war at a brutal new nadir, it is more critical than ever that the West apply pressure to Israel to end the war and prepare to return self-governance back to the Palestinians. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/gaza-and-t...
Gaza and the 'Day After'
Netanyahu's aimless war has killed tens of thousands, he shouldn't be allowed to kill Palestinian self-determination
www.bugeyedandshameless.com
I bet r/whatisthisbug would enjoy this. www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisb...
It's downtown Manhattan. If you're poor, you can't afford to park there anyway.
New from me: Youtube's critical role in supporting the anti-Putin opposition, and the anxiety about what Google will do to stay online in Russia. www.wired.com/story/youtub...
Russians Love YouTube. That’s a Problem for the Kremlin
YouTube remains the only major US-based social media platform available in Russia. It’s become "indispensable" to everyday people, making a ban tricky. Journalists and dissidents are taking advantage.
www.wired.comNarendra Modi doing much-less-well than expected in the Indian elections is a tiny bit of hope that maybe the world doesn't love its illiberal leaders as much as we worried they might. www.bbc.com/news/live/wo...
India election results 2024 live: Modi majority set to be slashed by opposition - BBC News
PM Narendra Modi's party will still be the largest but hopes of a landslide are dashed.
www.bbc.comjust gonna go ahead and put this right here foreignpolicy.com/2021/06/15/l...
The Lab Leak Theory Doesn’t Hold Up
The rush to find a conspiracy around the COVID-19 pandemic’s origins is driven by narrative, not evidence.
foreignpolicy.comYeah, absolutely. I understand why you'd want to use a big bold quote to anchor each update in your liveblog, but having only a quote as your shareable headline is a terrible idea!
I love how the Times' liveblog let's you link directly to updates, instead of the whole blog. But occasionally it leads to terrible headlines like this.
I'm adding this example to my "If websites don't consistently tag their stories, they should get rid of their internal search function" scrapbook.
Officials in Prague have released the findings of their years-long counterintelligence operation, exposing how the European far-right politicians accepted Russian cash from a shady intermediary
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www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...
Russia co-opts far-right politicians in Europe with cash, officials say
A Kremlin-backed media outlet — the Prague-based Voice of Europe — funneled hundreds of thousands of euros to far-right politicians, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
Hi! If you're in Toronto tomorrow, come out to listen to me interview Kaya Genç about his fantastic book about Turkey and its fraught modern politics.
www.eventbrite.ca/e/kaya-genc-...
Kaya Genç: A Journey Through Modern Turkey
Turkish journalist and author Kaya Genç shares his book The Lion and the Nightingale and discusses the state of modern day Turkey.
www.eventbrite.caI think you might be confused. It's no *Klinks* at pride, as people are concerned about the impact that autocratic camp commander Colonel Wilhelm Klink could have on children.
ok yes or, hear me out, hire an adequate number of trained staff, pay them living wages, and stop trying to squeeze profit by reducing safety
then, maybe, you can have a new business daddy
I'd Like to See Ol Donny Trump Wriggle His Way Out of THIS 34 guilty verdicts of falsifying business records
She runs USAID. If she didn't want this happening, should could stop it immediately.
As someone who found Power's writing to be extremely formative to my understanding of conflict, this is very depressing.
this is jaw dropping. samantha power, author of a big book on genocide, is apparently firing people for preparing presentations about maternal and child mortality in gaza www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
I don't mean to shock anyone, but I don't think Vivek Ramaswamy knows what he's talking about. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/lol-vivek-...
LOL! Vivek Ramaswamy's Dumbass Plan to Save BuzzFeed
Loser presidential candidate has bad idea, tweets it
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This is some really great/thorough/unnerving research.
I've been particularly fascinated by the growing popularity of the late Kim Clement. I might need to do an update to this: www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/bless-this...
NEW: Trump and his MAGA allies increasingly embrace extreme prophetic media “Trump’s inner circle is embracing the prophets” www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
Trump and his MAGA allies increasingly embrace extreme prophetic media
Former President Donald Trump, his family, and close advisers including Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, and Alina Habba have embraced influential right-wing prophetic Christian media, partic...
www.mediamatters.orgSome are, including some big names who have gone hard on it (like Casey Newton.) But I'd say fewer than here. I just use it to post links, but it's really not worth the effort.
Man, Threads is such a loser platform. It's a brand-safe platform where Meta artificially suppresses political conversations so it can sell more ads.
You avoid bad externalities (a genocide in Myanmar, e.g.) by not using systems to automatically manipulate conversations.
ok I figured it was either about abortions or flags. that makes sense
does anyone else get the impression that this column is about something more than flags? www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Perspective | It’s a woman’s right to fly her own flag! Hear, hear Justice Alito.
The Supreme Court justice is defending a woman’s freedom to make her own decisions without the influence of a man. Say more.
www.washingtonpost.com
what does mrs. alito do with the flags when they're not flying
that's what i want to know
For Foreign Policy, I went to Vilnius and took stock of the state of the Russian opposition. foreignpolicy.com/2024/05/29/p...
Putin Is Obsessed With Russian Liberals
Attacks on the movement show how insecure Russia’s dictator feels.
foreignpolicy.com
Tanks have reached the center of Rafah. Netanyahu took all the Western warnings and ignored them.
So is Biden going to do anything about it?
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
pockets of warm air and the dolphins are conspiring to keep us on our home continents
Much like the Boeing issues, where we started to get reports about every maintenance problem and it became impossible to figure out whether things were actually getting worse or just got reported more often after a major event, I can't help but ask the same question about turbulence injuries now.
12 people injured after Qatar Airways plane hits turbulence on way to Dublin
Twelve people have been injured when a Qatar Airways plane flying from Doha to Dublin hit turbulence
abcnews.go.com
told ya they were gonna turn Telegram, hotbed of extremist bullshit and Russian propaganda, into the unwoke messaging app.
www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/chris-rufo...
What a circlejerk: tucker, durov, elon.
So much for the "freedom of speech", right?
Biden lost Peter Thiel??? his goose is cooked
Do they do articles like "EXCLUSIVE: Rob Reiner spurns Trump, Backs Biden in 2024" the same way there's a parade of articles about hedge fund guys and VCs who backed Trump 4 years ago backing him again like it's somehow newsworthy?
I spent many years of my life reporting on a case where police tried to gaslight a community into convincing them there was no serial killer murdering people when, in fact, there was a serial killer murdering people.
You are very much right!
"At one point during the interrogation, the investigators even threatened to have his pet Labrador Retriever, Margosha, euthanized as a stray, and brought the dog into the room so he could say goodbye. 'OK? Your dog’s now gone, forget about it,' said an investigator."
good god
AC, and a I cannot emphasize this enough, AB www.sbsun.com/2024/05/23/f...
Fontana pays nearly $900,000 for ‘psychological torture’ inflicted by police to get false confession
Detectives grilled Thomas Perez Jr. for 17 hours, deprived him of medications and threatened to have his dog killed if he didn’t confess to killing his father, who was actually alive.
www.sbsun.comFair enough, I haven't encountered that yet. Clearly the issue is with treating LLMs as the source of all knowledge. But I think Kagi's model is less problematic: It feels more like it'd encouraging you to double-check its work, vs Google which always speaks in the voice of God.
"will they or won't they do mass deportations" is one of those political questions that suggests you've become the baddie
